Vektor 3 Chess

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Hello,

can anybody of you tell me if Vektor 3 Chess
URL http://www.schubert-it.com/vektor 3
supports the following things:

-- interface for WinBoard /UCI/ChessBase
-- Autoplayer 232
-- playing on internet chess server like FICS

Is Vektor 3 a "native " engine with own GUI or it is possible to embed it
into another Macintosh chess GUI like Shredder 3 for Mac?

Best regards,
Norbert

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

The correct URL is

http://www.schubert-it.com/vektor3

[fern]

Yoy rarely will find a Mac user here, my friend....

Fern

[swami]

Yoy rarely will find a Mac user here, my friend....

Fern

Perhaps Kenny Dail, Steven Edwards or Tord Romstad could help him out? I know they all have Mac notebooks...

[Matthias Gemuh]

Yoy rarely will find a Mac user here, my friend....

Fern

What is a Mac ? Is it a version of Vista ?

Matthias.

[AdminX]

Yoy rarely will find a Mac user here, my friend....

Fern

What is a Mac ? Is it a version of Vista ?

Matthias.

I think it's a hamburger (Big Mac) or another version or clone if you will of "Fruit"! (Apple aka "Macintosh")

[zullil]

Haven't used Vektor Chess in a while, but what I recall (and the website seems to confirm this) is that it is a stand-alone chess application. It is an engine with its own (very nice) GUI. I don't think the engine can be installed in other GUI's, and I don't think the Vektor GUI supports xboard or uci engines.

I suppose you could try to contact the programmer at info@schubert-it.com

[Tord Romstad]

Hello,

can anybody of you tell me if Vektor 3 Chess
URL http://www.schubert-it.com/vektor 3
supports the following things:

-- interface for WinBoard /UCI/ChessBase
-- Autoplayer 232
-- playing on internet chess server like FICS

As far as I know, it supports none of the above. There is no Mac OS X GUI which supports all of the three items. For UCI support, your options are Shredder (commercial), Sigma Chess (commercial), Glaurung (free), XBoard+polyglot (free, but requires X11) and Jose (free, but with an ugly cross-platform Java GUI). For XBoard engine support, you can choose between XBoard and Jose. I am not aware of any interfaces besides XBoard with internet chess server support, but I am sure they exist.

Tord

[krazyken]

Vecktor is several years old and not too strong. It is embedded in it's own GUI which I've always felt was the nicest looking GUI I've used. It will work with the ExaChess GUI as well. The new ExaChess 4 is in beta and has very basic UCI support, you may want to try out the beta and give the author feedback.

If you want to run engine matches, Xboard is the way to go currently. It's quite easy to script, and will let you run matches using multiple computers. If you need help getting that set up, do let me know.

Here's a game from my archives:

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[Date "2006.03.18"]
[White "Crafty 19.17"]
[Black "Vektor3 3.2.2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[ECO "B12"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. g4 Bg6 6. Nge2 c5 7. h4 h5 8. Nf4 Nc6
9. Nxg6 fxg6 10. Ne2 hxg4 11. Nf4 Nxd4 12. Nxg6 Rh5 13. Qxg4 Qa5+ 14. c3 Rf5
15. Bd3 Nf3+ 16. Kd1 Nxe5 17. Nxe5 Rxe5 18. Bf4 Qc7 19. Bxe5 Qxe5 20. Re1 Qxe1+
21. Kxe1 Ke7 22. Qf4 Rc8 23. Kf1 Nf6 24. Re1 Kf7 25. Rxe6 Be7 26. Qe5 Bd8 27.
Rd6 Kf8 28. Bg6 Kg8 29. Rxf6 gxf6 30. Qe8+ Kg7 31. Qf7+ Kh6 32. Qh7# 1-0